The Great Moments of Humanity Twelve Historical Miniatures

"Millions of worldly empty hours must constantly pass before a genuinely historic, a stellar hour of mankind, appears." Zweig's most important work recounts fourteen of these "fortunate hours." Adventurers and explorers such as Robert Scott, poets such as Goethe and Tolstoy, composers such as Handel, and contemporary history figures such as Napoleon, Lenin, and Woodrow Wilson are gathered here in impressive individual portraits in the most diverse forms, such as dramatic scene, report, or poem. Biography Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born into a Jewish commercial family in Vienna. He created poetry, stories, plays, and essays, all of which were burned by the Nazis in 1933. He resided in Salzburg from 1919 until 1934, then moved to England and then to Brazil in 1941. His epic works, like his historical miniatures and biographical works, made him famous. He deliberately put up his life in Petrópolis, Brazil, on February 23, 1942.